Part of the Global Plot to Expose Moonbats, conspiracy nuts, and anti-Semites, especially the Jewish anti-Semitic variety.
The leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine Counterpunch has described Plaut thus: "One of the most pernicious writers is Steven Plaut, a man who could be thought of as Israel's Daniel Pipes."

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Israeli Arab Leader Arrested for Arson

1. Remember how the leftist Moonbatocracy in Israel was screamingabout all those allegations of arson by Arabs being behind the massivefires in Israel this past fall? And how they were nothing more thanJewish paranoia and, of course, Jewish anti-Arab "racism?" Leftistsin Israel these days cannot complete a sentence without inserting theword racism into it, and often without inserting the word fascism. Itis part of the growing fascism within the Israeli Left itself.

Well, Heavens to Murgatroyd, look at what has just been revealed aboutthose forest arsons:

Islamist Leader Arrested for Forest Fire ArsonAdar 18, 5771, 22 February 11 06:15by Maayana Miskin(Israelnationalnews.com) The leader of a major Muslim movement inIsrael is suspected of setting fire to a forest less than three monthsafter the worst fire in modern Israeli history. Sheikh Ra'ad Salah,head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, has been arrestedin connection to an arson attack in southern Israel.

Salah allegedly set fire to a Eucalyptus forest in southern Israel.The attack was allegedly in protest of a Jewish National Fund projectin the area.

The Jewish National Fund is working to forest parts of the Negev, aplan opposed by some Bedouin residents of the region. Residents of theillegal town of El-Araqib in particular have condemned the project outof concern that it will use land that they hope to use in the futureto house Arabs "returning" to Israel from the rest of the Arab world.

Salah was arrested while driving on Highway 1, between Jerusalem andTel Aviv,, and was subsequently questioned by officers in the police'sminority affairs bureau.

He was released from jail just two months ago after serving fivemonths for attacking a police officer. Upon release he told hissupporters, "Someday we will celebrate the end of the Israeloccupation of Jerusalem and Al-Aksa [the Temple Mount – ed.]. We willcontinue with all our activities, without fear, until we reach thatgoal."

The arson attempt in the south came just weeks after the Carmel fire,a massive forest fire in northern Israel that killed 44 people. Duringthe Carmel fire an Arab arson offensive led to firefighters beingcalled away from the main blaze to battle smaller fires.

Despite the offensive, the Knesset voted down a bill to impose amandatory minimum sentence on arsonists.

[Sheikh Salah is the same bloke who appeared at the University ofHaifa a couple of years back in a lecture hall from which theuniversity officials prevented Jews from entering. Salah there calledon Arab students to become suicide bombers. Unlike some Rabbis whopraised a rabbinic treatise on the Halakhic rules of warfare, Salahhas never been investigated of prosecuted for "racism." Inpost-survivalist Israel, Islamofascist terrorists can never beracists.]

2. Prof. Gerald Steinberg on Transparency and Leftist Whininghttp://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/transparency-for-ngos-is-not-anti-democratic-1.345164Transparency for NGOs is not anti-democraticWith the adoption of regulation for reporting of foreign governmentfunds, the door is open to expanding transparency for private foreignfunding for Israeli groups across the political spectrum.By Gerald M. SteinbergThe Knesset legislation that mandates reporting of foreign governmentfunding for non-governmental organizations is not anti-democratic, asclaimed by vocal critics, mainly the recipients of the foreignlargesse.Indeed, as wide support in the Knesset showed, including from Laborand Kadima MKs, this law mandating transparency is designed to fix agaping hole in Israeli democracy. This bill is very different from thedraconian and partisan effort to use the Knesset to investigate onlyleft-wing groups.In recent years, European governments have provided an estimated 100million euros in taxpayer funds annually to a very narrow group ofIsraeli, Palestinian and European political advocacy organizations.When these groups sponsor quasi-academic conferences, newspaperadvertising campaigns and public rallies heralding sweepingallegations of Israeli wrongdoing, the public has the right to knowthat the money was provided by a foreign government.This transparency is an elementary requirement for the informed debatethat is essential to the democratic process. While all externalfunding for Israeli civil society, across the political spectrum,should be public knowledge, large foreign government transfers arevery different in principle from private donations.All governments have interests and use power to pursue those goals.When officials from Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, and anotherdozen nations use their "soft power" to fund dozens of Israeli groups,such as Breaking the Silence, Yesh Din, and the Public CommitteeAgainst Torture in Israeli, whose officials travel the world declaringthat Israel is a nation of war criminals, these groups are alsopromoting the interests of their sponsors. ‏(In contrast, the U.S. government generally does not fund Israelipolitical advocacy NGOs, and the few exceptions, such as theill-advised attempt to use the "Geneva Initiative" organization, endedquickly.‏)In election after election, the governments chosen by Israeli votershave differed with European positions. However, by massively fundingopposition NGOs, many of which claim to promote human rights‏(although they do this selectively‏), Europe tries to interfere withand manipulate the legitimate outcome of Israeli elections.In fact, some NGO officials are simply rejected politicians, who,after failing to get Knesset positions, have used foreign funds toexert power they could not obtain otherwise. A heavy shroud of secrecysurrounds the budgets of these Israeli political groups.In most European nations, the details are more tightly held thanmilitary plans, and no parliamentary hearings are held to discuss thelegitimacy, wisdom or implications of such funding. The decisionmaking processes are also completely non-transparent, leaving open thepossibility that these policies are made in violation of due processof law, as was recently uncovered in the case of Canadian NGO funding.In theory, Israeli NGOs should be covered by the existing reportingrequirements for non-profits, but in practice, many political advocacygroups have found ways to avoid such transparency by registering underdifferent frameworks, or avoiding any Israeli oversight mechanism.The new legislation, which is based on the U.S. Foreign AgentsRegistration Act, is designed to prevent these exceptions, and topromote the public's right to know who and what forces are behindpowerful political campaigns that take place outside, and often indirect opposition to, the electoral process.Had the NGO recipients endorsed this transparency legislation, insteadof falsely denouncing it as anti-democratic, the proposedinvestigations aimed only at one side of the political spectrum ‏(andmisdirected at alleged Arab government funding‏) would not have beenintroduced.With the adoption of regulation for reporting of foreign governmentfunds, the door is open to expanding transparency for private foreignfunding for Israeli groups across the political spectrum.The writer is president of NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based researchinstitution that tracks NGOs, particularly in the Middle East.This story is by: Gerald M. Steinberg

4. You will be happy to hear that the Im Tirtzu student organizationthis week picketed the Tel Aviv University classrooms in whichultra-bimbo Rachel Giora was to lecture and handed out leaflets tostudents revealing to them Giora's involvement in anti-Israelseditious activities and her many calls for world boycotts of Israel.The TAU moonbats are wetting themselves over this in hysteria.